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Orb. One World.
One Story.

Orb produces a new kind of
journalism that challenges and unites us around our human story.

About Orb

Orb unlocks the full
journalistic potential of what technology has made possible. We provide a new perspective, a refreshing
type of journalism that resonates with and is accessible to a diverse, global
audience. Our reinvented editorial
process enables us to serve our human community with journalism that challenges
and unifies us by fostering our understanding of our interconnected and
interdependent world.

How?

We begin by focusing on eight
topics that we all have in common: Food,
water, energy, health, education, environment, trade and governance.

Rather
than deliver event-driven content, bombarding the public with breaking news
while providing little in the way of context, Orb practices pro-active
journalism. We ask how events may (or
may not) fit into a meaningful, global trend.
We use today’s digital tools to consider our world as a set of
interlocking human and natural systems, rather than a confounding deluge of
random events.

We treat both
massive data
analysis and the knowledge in the crowd as primary sources. This information helps our journalists see
the world more holistically and pursue, at a global scale, what matters
most. Our teams of professional journalists test the insights that emerge from
data analysis and the crowd by conducting on-the-ground reporting. Applying their critical thinking, they
distill the complex and often contradictory information into a story we can
readily understand.

Orb delivers each story in
four versions – text, audio, multimedia and data – in the world’s ten most
widely spoken languages. Our stories are
designed to be accessible on any phone, tablet or computer.

The Executive Director and founder, Molly Bingham (www.meetmollybingham.com), conceived of the organization and is currently developing a the Orb team.